The outbreak of Ebola in west Africa continues to spread. According to this report from Reuters:
Patrick Sawyer, a consultant for the Liberian finance ministry in his 40s, collapsed on Sunday after flying into Lagos, a city of 21 million people, and was taken from the airport and put in isolation in a local hospital. Nigeria confirmed earlier on Friday that he had died in quarantine.The outbreak has so far killed 660 people.
Update 7/26/2014: ABC News reports that an American doctor has tested positive for Ebola:
North Carolina-based Samaritan's Purse issued a news release saying that Dr. Kent Brantly tested positive for the disease and was being treated at a hospital in Monrovia, Liberia. Brantly is the medical director for the aid organization's case management center in the city.
Brantly, 33, has been working with Samaritan's Purse in Liberia since October 2013 as part of the charity's post-residency program for doctors, said the group's spokeswoman Melissa Strickland. The organization's website says he had worked as a family practice physician in Fort Worth, Texas.A reader notes in the comments that another doctor has also been infected.
It is getting worse. In Sierra Leone's capital Freetown, a woman diagnosed with Ebola was removed from the hospital by her family, and is now loose somewhere in the city.
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And, Dr. Sheik Umar Khan of Sierra Leone, who had treated more than 100 Ebola victims has come down with the disease.
http://www.latimes.com/world/africa/la-fg-sierra-leone-ebola--20140724-story.html
I'm waiting for Dear Leader to bring "refugees" fleeing the Ebola outbreak to the US, and disburse them throughout the country. What could possibly go wrong?
CDC Ebola guidelines for airline workers.
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